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Seems I have a few of each, but .264 and 35's are my favorites

All my life I've been a .30 guy.

.30 cal stuff

.25 caliber seems to be my go to cal

Mostly 7mm .

.224

22lr, 22wmr, 22hornet, 221fb, 223....these do 98% of my dirty work

As much as I like the 30-06 which is what I started with I would not want to be without a 35 whelen.

If I could only own rifles with one bore diameter I'd go with 7mm. Luckily that's not the case.

8mm.

IF I let the safe repopulate after purging about half of it a year ago, it will be with 8x57's. Have a great all purpose one(parked, in a McMillan), Next up will be one with a mid weight barrel in a checkered walnut stock. After that, maybe an unaltered VZ24 or a "tacticool" target 8x57(everyone needs a black rifle, right?).

Or maybe I'll just call it good with what I've got, either way I'm an 8mm guy.

All 30's and my 416 bee

When I was very young, I dreamed of having a 264 Win Mag. And for a short time recently I wanted to mix up a big batch of Creed koolaid. Now I've fallin into a nostalgic trance and believe nothing could be better than a Swede.
So I guess my caliber, or catridge, is.........a dirty thirty?

With recoil not as much fun as it used to be, the .224's and 6mm's have more appeal now....

Seven 270's occupy places in the safe.

I've got 2-270's
1-243
1-7mm-08
1-223
1-7mm rem mag
4-22 rimfires
6-shotguns
8-handguns

I have and use most all of them but really have a soft spot (in my head) for the 8mms, .35s and 9.3s.

I've got as many .30 cal rifles on hand as all others put together, on most any day. Historically though, most of my hunting has been done with a .243 winchester, and I've gone through more barrels for that cartridge than any other.

My overall cartridge of choice today though is the 25-06. I only own one and it is handy, accurate, and light enough at 7.5 lbs.

My preference is the .277 in a couple varieties so I guess I must have caught the gay somewhere along the way!

My stuff in .223, .243, .257, .284 and .308 scarcely see any action aside from the range. I do have a hog gun coming up soon though and I plan on using a 25-06 and 30-06 that need to kill something to earn their continued home in the safe.

Elmer Keith did rather well with his custom .280 cal in Africa and personally wrote to O'Cconnor
acknowledging .270 is up to the task as an 'elkenator'.

Gay, heterosexual, bisexual, cross dresser and even hermaphrodite.....270 is a dress size
that fits them all...
like Marlboro Man, possible alpha-testostrone E.K. kept something hidden in his closet...

I've always liked the .257 calibre and have five at the moment. I have a .243 that I don't shoot and am thinking of turning it into a .25 Souper. Waaaaaaay cooler!

Not married to or in love with one particular caliber or cartridge, they're all interesting and effective. There's 60+ in the toy box from 25-20 WCF to 500 BPE with only two rifles in the same cartridge. Game and what strikes my fancy that day determines what I use.